Mixed Use Enterprise Hubs and Coworking Advocacy

CoLocal is powered by BizBuddyHub, a group that has been advocating for many years for the 20-minute neighbourhood model especially in the fast growing and diverse outer metro areas like Wyndham.

With such a young family make up with as much as 70% having to spend up to 2-4 hours a day commuting to jobs in the city and beyond we believe much more can be done to create local solutions to work in your own post code and to be able to truly live, work, shop and support local while collaborating globally.

The video below is an example of the work we have done to highlight this to Local, State and Federal government. Since the pandemic has created a paradigm shift towards working from home we believe the next step to be to see how we can shift this to working in your own postcode. We also put in a submission to LaunchVIC in 2016, and have had much interest from universities such as this Research piece done by RMIT. 

Pop Up Coworking

We started this campaign with pop up coworking in local café’s and other interesting local places that were under-utilised including the now defunct Masters furniture section. Below are some of the videos of the journey along the way. Much blood, sweat and tears has been shed for many years and the journey in some ways has only just begun: